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Thomas Bailey Aldrlch, tbe poet, Wtt
fortune. He inherited It
"Why ire so many women InvalldsT"
IK Good Health. Presumably because
the doctors need the money.
Mark Twain might be excused for
becoming prolix if he receives 30 cents
word for everything he writes.
An old-fashioned Kansas editor
would like to see a picture of Evelyn
Nesblt in the act of washing dishes.
"Thaw is a millionaire." Exchange.
When he pays bis lawyer's bills It can
be changed to read: Thaw was a mill
ionaire.
Mr. Rockefeller says he thinks be
talks too much. Perhaps you may
have noticed what a chatterbox he
has always been.
A Cleveland woman complains that
be finds It difficult to run her house on
$15,000 a year. It might pay her to
search tbe cook's trunk.
Tbe nations of the world are willing
enough to discuss disarmament, pro
Tided it doesn't Interfere in any way
with the building of enormous navies.
Mark Twain's white dress suit may
distinguish him from tbe head waiter,
but people who do not know him may
wonder which minstrel troupe be is a
member of.
Have you noticed anybody In the act
of shedding tears because of the man
ner in which New York's "smart set"
was recently trimmed by the Wall
street contingent
A Cleveland couple became the par
ents of fire children In one year. There
Is nothing to show, however, that they
were striving to win the President's
mile of approval.
John D. Rockefeller hints that he Is
in favor of government ownership of
railroads. Does Mr. Rockefeller believe
tbe government is bigger and abler
than Mr. Ilarrlman?
Gen. Funston Is to be kept back In
his promotion on account of his youth.
The punishment is not severe enough.
He ought to be reprimanded besides.
What right has a soldier to be young?
Unfortunately the laws of California
do not provide for the hanging of graft
ers who used for their own benefit
money that was sent for the relief of
the people who were rendered homeless
by the Sanp Francisco earthquake and
fire.
, Fashionable people who follow the
fad of driving docked horses should
It up and take notice of a fact that
has developed in the debates over the
New York anti-docking bill. Opposition
to the bill, it appears, comes largely
from up-State farmers who see that an
ntl-docklng law would deprive them of
a handy device for working off on the
metropolitan market a $50 nag as a
$600 blooded hunter or carriage horso.
All they have to do is to chop off the
tall of the ordinary "plug," and, presto,
he Is changed Into a thoroughbred animal.
Prof. Bailey of Yale has revealed the
relative expenditures of students work
ing their way through college and
those who pay their way. He makes
curious showing. For example, that
wealthy students spend more on intoxi
cants than on tobacco. Evidently he
does not rank tobacco as a "dissipa
tion" in tbe popular sense. lie adds
that they spend eighteen times as much
on pleasures and eighty-two times as
much on tobacco and drinks as the
poor working students. There's noth
ing very surprising In that They prob
ably spend relatively as much more on
everything. The really interesting thing
would be to follow these boys Into life
and compare the results at the end of
their generation.
In testifying in the Thaw trial In
New York City experts on Insanity fre
Quentlyused tbe term "bruin storm." As
defined by them, the term means a sud
den, uncontrollable, mental coudltlon
depriving one of reason. This defini
tion has appeared to give license for
the use of the term almost Indiscrim
inately. It Is no longer applied to de
scribe the conditions of insanity, but to
define aud denote extreme excitement.
The terra may yet be meaningless. For
Instance, a man recently couiniltted
murder under circumstances of extreme
provocation. The newspaper In describ
ing the man's mental condition said
that he suffered from "brain storm." A
woman In New York City driven to
desperation by stories circulated re
garding her committed suicide. The
reporters In giving an account of the
tragedy said that she was seized with
"brann storm." A school teacher In New
Jersey administered excessive punish
ment to a pupil. Ills friends pleaded
"brain storm." A school teacher in New
aome one to steal an umbrella to be
represented as being the victim of
"brain storm." It Is remarkable how
press and people will seize upon a new
word or term and practically annihilate
It '
The son of a wealthy New Yorker,
having been scolded by his mother be
cause he read so much and u
leu about his personal appearance,
hanged himself after writing the follow
ing note, which he pinned up In his
room: "I love you all truly, but It
seema we must part There was a bur
den; there is none now." Of course,
tbe morbid youth read this stuff in
some story and Improved the first occa
sion to put it in practice in imitation
of the hero or heroine of pernicious
fiction. The outcome of his silly life
shows that the mother was right In her
protest against his reading, though prob
ably it would have been more effective
bad it been made at an earlier period
and with, old-fashioned parental firm
ness. There was a tlme when parents
dictated the kind of books their chil
dren should read. In those days child
suicides were unknown. If children
subsequently read morbid stuff It was
at an age when they were Immune
from It Another boy recently entered
the bouse without wiping his feet His
mother's sense of neatness was out
raged and she reprimanded the boy, as
was her duty. Thereupon the sensitive
creature took carbolic acid and got rid
of his "burden." A third boy was so
humiliated because his father asked
him In the presence of a young girl,
the object of his vealy affection, to go
upon an errand, that he went out to
the barn and hanged himself. A boy
and girl hardly yet In their teens, In
despair over the long time they must
wait before they could be married,
agreed to asphyxiate themselves and
succeeded. Numerous other Instances of
this kind which have occurred during
the present year might be cited. A
slight from a playmate, a rebuke at
home, a reprimand from a teacher,
jealousy of a companion's success,
pique over a fancied insult, and dis
appointment over love affairs are suffi
cient causes nowadays for Juvenile
suicide. This class of suicides la rap
Idly increasing, which seems to show
that our high civilization Is promoting
delicacy of nervous organization and
emotional sensibility, and Is breeding
young Werthers. It may be that as
tbe social order grows more complex
human wants multiply so fast that they
cannot be satisfied, and rather than
live unsatisfied, persons prefer death,
This is a view taken by one authority
discussing this subject But this ap
piles only to adults. Children, al
though they are much older at the
same age than children used to be,
have not yet reached that period when
mere material desires ungratlfled can
Induce suicide. It is more likely that
the larger number of these, both boys
and girls, have grown sensitive and
morbid and more or less mentally un
sound for lack of discipline, paternal
restraint and moral example In the
home. In the absence of these It is
natural the child should be more or
less abnormal and become a criminal
or a suicide. It can hardly be doubted
that wholesome correctives reasonably
administered in the home and a closer
scrutiny of what boys and girls are
reading and doing would put an end
to Juvenile suicide, which was unknown
in an older and more disciplinary day.
ABOUT THE HEART.
Model in a New York Museum Show
Action of LoTer'i Blood Pomp.
An excellent opportunity to study
the working of the human heart Is
afforded by a model put on exhibition
by Dr. Carroll Henderson at the scien
tific exposition In the American Mu
seum of Natural History.
The model Is made of rubber and
glass tubing. By means of pressure
attachments a blood-colored liquid is
sent pulsing through the various close
ly related chambers, and all the nor
mal movements of the organ are re
produced as In life; and not only this,
but the sounds of the valves. More
over, It Is capable of producing move
ments and sounds caused by various
kinds of heart disease On applying
the ear to the cardiac region two suc
cessive sounds are heard, called the
first and second sounds, and which may
be expressed by the syllables lubb dup.
When the valves are affected by dis
ease the normal sounds may be Intensi
fied or weakened, or they may disap
pear entirely and be replaced by mur
murs, or abnormal sounds, may be
u uiiuuikuitwuaij n uu ui 111 I. lit;
Intervals between the normal ones.
The swain, who In the presence of
his lady love, feels his tongue and lips
grow so dry that he Is scarcely able
to speak, and whose power of speech
Is further paralyzed by the thumping
of his heart, can see In the model what '
actually happened by the Increase of!
the normal beats of that muscle from '
75 or 80 a minute to 150 or more. The 1
effects of fear and excitement are also '
manifested by various degrees of ac
celerated movement Overwhelming
news or sorrow or joy or excessive
fright may cause stoppage of the
heart's action and then fainting ensues.
AS ETDIAJJ CHESTERFIELD.
Tlrmt Eale's Poetia Greeting- to
Ketaralas Missionary.
"Poetry can still be found In the
language of the Indiana," said Miss
Caroline Oourteney, a teacher In the
Presbyterian Indian Industrial School
at Wolf Point, Mont, according to the
New York Press, ,"ln spite of the level
ing Influences .of reservation life.
When I went away on my last vaca
Hon I was gone two months. When I
returned I found several of my friends
from the reservation at the depot to
meet me. Among them were old ex-
Chief First Eagle and hlB three wives.
After the chief had shaken hands ho
laid bis hand on his heart and said:
'First Eagle all time sick here you go;
squawB all time sick here you go. First
Eagle all time laugh here you come;
squaws all time laugh here you come."
"No white man," said Miss Oourte
ney, "could have given so poetic a wel
come, even If he had felt It It would
have stuck in his throat The nearest
he could have gotten to It In figurative
language would have been : 'You're a
good sight for sore eyes.'
"Some of the Indian children fresh
from the tepee are most Interesting,
For one thing, twenty degrees below
zero 1b a temperature which they don't
mind In the least Cora Moore we
renamed her because her Indian name
was unpronounceable and very unat
tractive when translated is only 7
years old, but she will climb a tree on
the coldest day of winter and calmly
sit up there and read her second read
er. Cora Is Irrepressible. She is an
Indefatigable tree climber and comes
In with dresses of the stoutest mate
rial torn nearly off her body. She
can climb anything that ever grew or
was ever made.
My motner used to say that a
tomboy' is sure to make a smart wom
an, because the fact that she is a 'tom
boy' shows that she Is full of vitality
and energy. If that Is the case, I am
sure Cora will be a genius later on.
She is ready for anything active, work
or play; except washing dishes. There
is an Indian mutiny every time it Is
her turn to help with the dishes. Scout
ing parties are sent out, which pull
her out from under some bed or table.
One day they found her at a distant
point of the grounds gazing steadfast
ly off over the prairie. She turned
and said with Immense dignity : 'Why
you trouble me? I look, maybe my
mother come.'
"These Indian children, In true In
dian fashion, study all the teachers
and try to read them through and
through, so as to find out and utilize
their weak points. One very little boy
In my class is William Black Thunder,
tbe son of Bad Knife. He Is lovable,
but full of tricks. When I start to
correct him he will look up at me with
a most bewitching smile and say, 'Co
zee zee.' That means, 'My dear, dear
friend,' and the little scamp has found
out that I am totally disarmed when
he says that"
Sweet Time,
Topi"
"Yes, my boy."
"Are bee industrious?"
"Yes, very industrious, my son."
"They make honey, don't they?"
"Yes."
"I suppose they have a 'sweet time'
making it, don't they?" Yonkers '
Statesman.
MAPS HELP A MAN SLEEP.
Mental Geography the Best Soporifle
According; to a Drug Clerk.
A haggard-looking man strolled Into
a downtown drug store the other day
and asked the druggist for help. He
said he had trouble In getting sleep
when he retired. No matter how sleepy
he might be during the day or bow
much sleep he might have lost the mo
ment his head touched the pillow he
was wide awake and lay thus for sev
eral hours. Once asleep, he was hard
to waken, but he had to be up at a
certain -hour, and In consequence of his
peculiar affliction he was losing more
sleep than he could stand.
The drug, clerk regarded him quiz
zically a few moments and then re
plied: "My dear man, you don't wait
medicine. What you want Is some
thing to change the trend of your
thoughts. Do as a friend of mine did.
He was troubled the same way and
found that the old folks' plan of imag
ing sheep passing a barrier and count
ing them was out of date. So he began
trying to name all the States in the
Union. He soon got them so he could
classify them alphabetically. Then
when they no longer interested him he
started on the counties of this State.
He now has them at his tongue's
end, classified up to the fourth letter.
Now he is starting on state capitals
and their locations; then he will take
up county seats.' A moment's glance
at an atlas during the day shows him
when he is wrong, and the beauty of
the plan is that he rarely has to think
along these Hues longer than ten min
utes before he Is sound asleep. To
make It short the study of geography
k a good narcotic." Philadelphia Rec
ord.
How Soldiers Reduce.
Soldiers have an easy way of keep
ing their figures supple and trim. The
officer who finds his Waist growing
greater than his chest thus destroying
the symmetry of his uniform, eats for
a little while nothing but lean meat,
and drinks nothing but hot water. Thu
he lpses two pounds or so a day. H
keeps this diet up till he haa sufficiently
diminished himself a matter, aa a
rule, of but three or four days' absti
nence and then he returns to his usual
food again.
Apparent to All,
before midnight I' don't like to misa 1
my beauty sleep.
Miss Peppery You really should trr
harder. You certainly don't set enoneh
of it Philadelphia Ledger.
What has become of the old-fashion
ed boy who dldnt like to put on his
Sunday clothes?
No Lona-er Cheap.
Tklxt all supplies then teems a race
To reach the top notch first;
The cost of living grow apace
And now w have the worst.
It almost makes the nation weep.
This rise of one sad day,
For even talk's no longer cheap
iThe Senate's raised its pay.
Harper's Wteklr.
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